it's not clear if the mock agreement was ever drafted on replica fema letterhead, but one week later, mayor de blasio joined other politicians announcing $1.6 billion in hospital aid. >> it is so good for new yorkers and americans. >> reporter: there were no fema reps present at this news conference, because the official agreement wasn't done until five months later. >> today is a banner day. >> reporter: city hall objected to any suggestion the mock-up agreement was intended to justify the news conference or jerry bur man, the city official who wrote some of those e-mails, said it was his idea, intended to prod fema to move faster. it was just kbashs impatience in moving through the bureaucracy. >> people want to see results three years after the storm, they wanted to see it yesterday. but it holds it up more getting a mock agreement than a real agreement. that's my problem with these e-mails. >> reporter: back at the hospital, they are proud to say their floodwall is expected to be complete by next year. it was funded directly by congress, not by fema. >> so for the new hurricane se

what they want is help. >> the president ordered fema to help. fema spent lots of money. even nbc's anchors noticed that the private recovery work was much more efficient. there's fema and then there's the faith based fema. >> if you wait for the government you will be in for an awful long wait. >> sam porter is one harry has been talking about. >> the logo. >> he's the leader of oklahoma baptist disaster relief. >> volunteers got bull dosers and cleared tornado debris from more than a thousand homes. >> i have been to disasters all over the world tsunamis earthquakes hurricanes any time there's a storm or any kind of destruction anywhere we are on it immediately. >> fema often takes forever. you government lovers are always talking about fixing government. it never gets fixed. the response to that should not be to throw up our hand and say fema is a copy it and doesn't do anything. >> you need a central agency to coordinate. >> you don't. you just need some americans who care. >> they brut in bob katz and bulldozers and went to work. >> within days the baptists gave them

people want fema to go away completely. we need a federal emergency disaster, but one that has over site. >> you have seen prevention in miami where we note you frequent quiet. you're there quiet frequently. >> well, let me tell you because i cannot make it to the studio because of the floods on the street. the city has taken money and puts hundreds of thousands of dollars into pumps and raises roads so that you can live there when the water comes up from the moon or floods or hurricanes. that makes people want to live there. there's a way to do this and that's the best example in the country. i will say that sandy has improved things. it's better than it was before. the govm doernment does not su subsidi subsidize. if sandy happened, it would be costly than the last time. >> john? >> cannot make it to the studio in miami unless you're late. >> it's the floods i tell you. >> it would be a drought and you could not make it to the studio on time. i do agree with the private insurance and building the mandates and you see that

well, i called up fema, and i asked them half. is going on. they said of all the thousands and thousands and thousands of appeals that have been filed this summer, they've only been able to issue a few -- a couple of hundred checks, i should say so far. they say more are on the way. but senators booker and menendez says they will continue to hold fema's feet to the fire. live in toms river, i'm brian thompson, news 4, new york. >>> all right. we're just about 24 hours away, give or take, from the first gym of the world series. mets fans are already charged up. >> big fan rally in queens filled the streets with blue and orange. gus rosendale was there. >> reporter: good evening. a sea of blue and orange here at kew gardens. everyone here excited what is going to happen in kansas city. more excited about bringing the world champions back to queens. the borough president hosting the rally here. hundreds of fans rooting on the past and present. it was a lot of families who were sharing the fan experience across the generations. many here have neve

about delays in fema aid. >> new york's biggest public hospital is still waiting for fema. >> reporter: one year ago, just before the i-team aired this report, fema officials wrote dr. raju was planning to head off the news story by signing a mock agreement before fema was ready to sign the real thing. i believe the health and hospitals corporation will sign a mock letter of undertaking tonight in an attempt to stop the report from the nbc reporter. at the end of the day, it very well might just be a piece of paper with ink on it. with all due respect, i -- but a lawyer for the city persisted. >> the e-mails raise serious >> reporter: it's not clear if the mock agleemt was ever drafted on replica fema letterhead, but one week later, mayor de blasio joined other politicians announced $1.6 billion in hospital aid. >> it is so good for new yorkers and americanss. >> reporter: there are no fema reps present at this news conference because the official agreement wasn't done until five months later. >> today's a banner day. >> reporter: city hall objected to any suggestion the mocked up agre

i have been with fema since 2000. i've had a variety of positions at the agency starting what we call field attorney. i deployed to the joint field offices that fema sets up when the president declares a major disaster or an emergency. i've held a variety of positions including the deputy chief council for a number of years and again i've been the chief counsel since -- for about a year now. >> i'm dan connolly. i started as a prosecutor in new york city and then served as counsel in new york for eight yearsserving as the liaison in the aftermath of the attacks in september of 2001. and since then, i have been in private practice both on the consulting side initially helping -- on the corporate side helping companies prepare for crisis and then good old-fashion practicing of law. >> good afternoon. my name is grorjeorge grasso. i started as a new york city police officer in 1979 and went to law school on the job and worked my way up through various uniform ranks ult p s ultimatel becoming the deputy commissioner for t

if you feel to qualify and you have not registered for fema aid make sure that you do that. reporting in sacramento county, kimberly mcdougall. >>> let's check in with our chief meteorologist bill martin. bill, soon enough it will feel like fall? >> yes, kind of a little bit more today and it will continue. the days are getting shorter so it is a little cooler overnight. this was a shot taken last night. again, it will be one of those nights again tonight because we will have a beautiful sunset. this is san francisco, what a beautiful picture. >> i like that sunset. >> so, there is a fog across the bay. that is a beautiful shot. you can see the container ship coming out of the fog. a shallow marine layer is bringing us some warm temperatures. it will be like that tomorrow or the next day because it is going to cool down. i just want to point out what is going on here. this is one heck of an active pacific. do we have rain in the forecast? maybe a few sprinkles. we even have sprinkles around the big sur area. but, it is not much of anything. but, the wheels are turning. there

fema awarded spring lake a $7 million grant to fix its boardwalk. but the special audit found the town didn't spend 2 million of that grant and another 1.2 million was not properly accounted for. fema has nine days to respond to these claims. >>> a child car seat is safest when it's installed properly, something that is not always >> for help on that, better get ba baquero. we look at car seats a bit easier to install. >> that's right, and according to the national car seat safety administration, a certain percentage are installed improperly. now celebrating 130 years, "good housekeeping" aims to make life a little easier for consumers by checking out products in their labs. >> it will be the best performing, the easiest to use. >> they said child car seats are easy to install. for infants, the cicco 3 is the best for infants. remember, gord an said the seat should never move more than an the burtax is for children under 60 pounds. >> we loved this one for the ease of installation, which is, again, very important to us, because installing your car s

fernando: como dice fema debe estar preparado para evacuar e y que una ruta. julio: gran parte de las nuevas medidas de seguridad entran en vigencia cuando tarjeta de crÉdito se trata un nuevo chip para que la informaciÓn no sea robada. reportera: quizÁs ya tenga una exposiciÓn las tarjetas de crÉdito y débito vienen con un chip integrado en el mismo se usa ampliamente para finales del 2015 y en menos de dos aÑos reemplazarÁ el uso de la banda magnÉtica posiblemente ya haya tenido que usar la nueva tecnologÍa ahora se inserta en un espacio el chip actÚa como una pequeÑa computadora sÓlo un lector revela su informaciÓn protege al usuario. para los ciber criminales la rÉplica es mucho mÁs difÍcil y costosa. >> permite controla el fraude contra las personas que estÁn haciendo tarjetas fraudulentas. reportera: en muchas tiendas grandes ya se ven las mÁquinas a partir de este 1 de octubre los negocios deben implementar el sistema o serÁ responsables por los cargos asociados. >> la responsabilidad de fraude va transferir de las compaÑÍas que em

fema also planning on sending out push alerts to the smart phone application. the work load our global application for free and wealthy persian push alerts be a problem in your area. live now it leo as cafe weight by next spring. then it could be followed by a cooler and drier weather next winter. >>mark:meanwhile fema is urging californians in flood prone percent of residents in high and that if you buy insurance for just one year. this would bemore than 30 percent of flood insurance claims in the past here. >> diane: locally are temperature was struck things down back to where we should be this time of year earlier this week above seasonal average warm temperatures continue to cool things off as we get into the weekend will clubs at as fomc off in the distance we of partly cloudy skies the rest of. your knife it '70s and inland valley locations. east bay. shoreline bay finn francisco. opera '50s partly cloudy skies evening and then from coastal fog temperature. is 54 and the coast 55 for the day. 57 in the valley. noontime sunny skies high clouds in place. co

ours is not quite as in-depth as fema's. our document is about half that size and it includes checklists for various agency counsel who may be called on to respond to various things. so it's tied to the esf structure and, for example, the department of health we have a specific role in n there and then we work down from their there coordinating with other agencies and their counsel. it's just -- it's been a great thing and in fact what it's led to is the department of health is in the process of publishing a public health emergency preparedness legal manual and bench back because we recognize not only do legal counsel need to have this information but the judiciary is often forgotten. so we've been working with the courtings, we're doing a seminar on 9/11 of this year and -- for training of law and science for judges and so all of these things are an evolving process. the main thing is that it's a living document and as things happen -- for example, when this was drafted -- when this was released there was no -- ebola was no

fema is expecting claim reviews. you have until midnight tonight. >>> a man is accused of six counts in murder in the deadly market street collapse will be back on the witness stand in his own defense. yesterday griffin campbell told the jury he had formal training as a contractor. he was basically told what to do by demolition architects. campbell claims his only demolished two small row homes says building on market street eventually collapsed onto the salvation army drift store killing six people in 2013. he told the jury there were no discussions about job site safety by the architect. campbell says the only time city inspectors told him to stop was because he didn't have enough insurance. his testimony continues today. >>> happening today, a ribbon cutting ceremony to open a new facility in chester county. it's the north american corporate headquarters for a building materials company. the company says that facility will help attract innovators to the greater philadelphia area. >>. >> happening today in south je

fema sent a team from fairfax county earlier this week. take a look. you can see there assisting in the cleanup efforts there. they were also performing water rescues and delivering water and supplies.

in a second we'll talk with the head of fema. >>> but to my colleague, sarah dallof. you've talked to one family that's lost everything and we have heard that story over and over, sarah. >> reporter: yeah, we have heard it over and over again, tamron. we're in one of those neighborhoods that could be affected by lake katherine should it breach. i want to show you the number of cars on the side of the road. these are homeowners, volunteers, some of them friends, some of them complete strangers who are coming out today despite these concerns to help homeowners kind of get what they can out of their homes, take stock of what belongings are left here. it is a very emotional day for these homeowners, some of whom are seeing their belongings and their homes for the first time since these floods hit. we'll pull up right now alongside one of the homes of a family who, like you said, has lost everything. we'll get out in just a second and show you. but i want to tell you the family actually -- initially rescuers were going to leave them in the home until -- they had a little b

the director of fema is here. and, protection of our national leaders. we include customs and border , immigration customs and enforcement, citizenship services, tsa, secret service, the coast guard, and fema. i want to take a moment to highlight the extraordinary work of the secret service and other elements of the department of homeland security just a few weeks ago. ,ust a few weeks ago, we had what many would consider the perfect storm, in terms of the protection of visiting heads of state, heads of government. we had, in mid-september, 170 world leaders and espouses in this country, in your city, pretty much all of the same time. the responsibility, believed responsibility for protecting them all, was the united states secret service. we had the president of china, leaders from afghanistan, iraq, iran, israel, the united kingdom, france, italy, russia, and of course, the pope, all in this country at the same time. no other agency of our government, except for the secret service -- no other protection service in the world could have pulled off what t

a majority of the policy holders settled the claims, but fema allowed them to file for a review after fema learned they were underpaid. >> it's going to be a chilly weekend. >> reporter: you might have frost out there, time to unhook the hose and turn off the water. >> i'm going to do it because of you. >> reporter: stepping outside it's chilly, you can see the tops. center city skyscrapers as any cloud cover is light and thin and in the process of getting out of here. 55 degrees is the temperature. windy out of the north northwest at 9 miles per hour. it's breezy this morning, before you not too bad. there's lingering cloud cover that slides away from philadelphia toward the shore. a couple of other patches to the west, generally speaking we're expecting a fairly sunny start, maybe cloud cover during the day, but generally speaking i'm expecting it to be fairly bright. 53 degrees by 8:00. 1 1:00 a.m., 58 degrees. 2:00 p.m., 63 degrees, high of 65. a little bit on the breezy side. high temperatures north to south, not much of a range. 65 in allentown afternoon millville. pretty much t

the city's fire department just received a grant from fema to hire six new firefighters. fema awards those grants to help fire department meet staffing, response and operating standards that are set by osha and the national fire protection agency. >>> happening today, you can hike it, you can bike it, but no cars allowed. a busy stretch of highway 84 between fremont and sunol will be closed for the miles canyon stroll and roll. here's the area i'm talking about. highway 84 between old canyon road and main street in sunol. between 6:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. it will only be open to walkers or bike riders. a ten-foot wide trail for walkers, riders and possibly even horseback riders through the canyon. the project could cost between $67 million and $69 million. >> on the horizon there. >>> coming up next, wanted for homicide, but not just in the north bay. the damming evidence that has investigators convinced three homicide suspects have struck before in san francisco. >>> and he survived a clash with overseas terrorists. now, a national hero is suddenly fighting for his own lif

fema is paying for most of it...but state and county dollars are also being used. the long term goal is to also buy 16-acres of adjacent property... to expand the watershed project. southwest airlines is changing one of its routes beginning in april. the airliner will fly twice daily to the st. louis international airport. the des moines airport says several businesses in central iowa have strong connections in st. louis and this will help fill that need. southwest will end services to chicago midway from des moines when the st. louis service begins. the governor is celebrating the in fort dodge that's expected to spur major development in the area... political director dave price is just back from fort dodge and joins us now with more...dave? if you drive out past this new park tonight...you see a bunch of dirt and big equipment just sitting there...both waiting for what's next. developers hope what's next is something the fort dodge area's never seen before. this will be the cross town connector.... the decker development park will do just that...connect one side

. >> how -- coming up next, how fema is stepping in to help people start over. >> and small things come in fierce packages, how this small dog,,,,,,,, ♪ great change comes from doing the right thing. like the radical idea that health isn't an industry. it's a cause. so we do things differently. we combine care and coverage. and believe prevention is the most powerful of cures. so forgive us for not going with the flow. we just think the flow should go with us. which makes us rebels with one cause. your health. . >> firefighters are nearing containment of the valley /# fire in lake county. it burned more than 100 square miles, killed four people and destroyed nearly 2000 buildings. federal help is on the way to victims in lake county and to the people who lost their homes and belongings in the butte fire in amador and calaveras counties. >> help is on the way. >> while they're figuring out their long-term plan, they have a safe and secure place -- a roof over their head to do that. >> several mobile homes just like this one have arrived at mc clelland park in sacramento, to be shipped

about 360 square miles. >> he says this is the first assignment of its kind for fema in california. some are flying from the oakland airport. the vale fire destroyed -- valley fire destroyed 2,000 structures. four people died in the fire and four firefighters suffered serious burns. >>> new at 6:00 p.m. a zero net energy zone at uc davis and the goal is to show zero net energy is practical. 2,000 are living in a community called west valley. how west valley produces almost as much energy as it uses. >> reporter: living in west village means having her own bedroom with a fan to save energy. >> we try limit the amount of energy we use. it can make a huge impact. >> reporter: students travel to class on buses using compress said natural gas and liver in building with solar panels. apartments have energy efficient appliances in a village that is generating 82% of all the energy it uses. >> it is oriented north to south or east to west. that means it capitalizes on the breeze. >> reporter: it is the largest planned zero net energy community in the country. >> it means that you produce on

he was just 6 0 years old. >>> now a life after sandy and a call to reform fema. jill gillbrand is president obama posing that fema makes papers ready for everyone. >> countless families are still fight together put their lives back together because fema failed to do its job. it's fail make sure all of these families deserve the compensation they need and deserve. >> the bill would increase the oversight over fema and exclude them from excluding some coverage. >>> the mets and their fans getting ready for the beginning of the road series. >> rivalry sunday for the jets and giants but only one of them is waking up happen this morning. we have the highlight >>> shay stadium may be long gone but the memory lives on. fans said they got the best memento, their wedding day picture. >> i can't describe it. it was 31 years ago. >> wed ing ding bells range for this couple who love the mets. there was operate only one place to choose for their wedding resipgs. >> she said her does unworked there. >> there on the pitchers pound the couple posed, joe in his tux and angela in

fema deadline to make a fileing is midnight tonight. nearly 145,000 homeowners suffer as loss when the storm hit in october of 2012. some claim they were under stege for their damages. so fema is accepting requests for a claim review. again you only have until midnight. it will be up to philadelphia's next mayor to decide who should one run the city's police department there. just after commissioner charges ramsay announced yesterday that he's retiring, ramsay was joined by the man who hired him, mayor michael nutter, to make that announcement yesterday. ramsay will retire january 7th when nutter's term ends. ramsay served for eight years as philadelphia police commissioner. during that time, homicides, robberies, shootings, all declined. but ramsay says his work is not done. >> there there are some neighborhoods deemed unsafe. there are too many people shot on the streets in our city. too many murders, too many robberies, too much crime. >> now, chief ramsay's 47 year history in law enforcement began when he was 18. an 18-year-old recr

fema has been fantastic. we started with eight counties. i've always said this is a game of addition, not subtraction. we added three counties yesterday. we've got word that we're adding five more counties to the major declaration that's going to be calhoun county, darlington, florence, kershaw, and lee counties. so we'll continue to add to that, and this is about just assessments. fema has boots on the ground, they're right now doing the assessing, d.o.t.'s got boots on the ground. you're going to see more road closures. that's more because as the water flows down, we're doing assessments of what's safe and what we've said is when in doubt, close it. it will be an inconvenience for a while, it won't last long. i'd rather know the roads are safe and that you are not having to take any caution that you shouldn't have to. so we're doing that. we knew this water was coming down this way, so we've been working 48 hours in advance. we've prepositioned swift-water rescue team. dnr is here, sled has their teams here. to make sure you have everythi

. >> we have fema in the air doing aerial views. we will have fema on the ground tomorrow doing assessments. teams are on the ground in both states surveying businesses, cars and trucks swept away in the floodwaters. jc: right now, this teenager is under arrest accused of pulling , a gun on a college student in it happened at the community college of philadelphia this morning briefly putting the , campus in lockdown. no one was hurt and the 17-year-old was apprehended inside a classroom. police say the incident is unrelated to a social media threat, following the deadly oregon shooting, that led to increased security at philadelphia-area colleges yesterday. new at 5:00, a lowell man who doused a store clerk with gasoline in january will spend up to six years in prison. surveillance images captured 30-year-old john soiles, in a mask, at jerry' s food store. prosecutors say he threw gas on the clerk and threatened to set the man on fire with a lighter, before running off with hundreds in cash. fortunately, the clerk was not hurt. phil

fema called in task force one last night. they'll will be conducting water rescues like this one for people stranded all across the city. "news4's" mollette green is liv in shann tilly with more on the equipment they need to do these rescues. molette, good morning. >> reporter: eun, good morning. we're inside their massive warehouse where tens of thousands of pounds of equipment are stored. this team left about 3:30 this morning, a 19-vehicle caravan, going into dangerous conditions. now, about 80 responders packed up their gear last night and throughout the morning hours. 59,000 thousand pounds of equipment and answered the call from fema, taking with them cameras, listening devices, eight flat-water and swift-water boats. this is the same team that helped out in nepal after a devastating earthquake there earlier this year. >> they're looking for -- we have people in a known location. we want to evacuate them immediately we assist with that. and then typically i thereafter, we go door to door. we will assist in making sure t

fema is urging people to buy flood insurance. it's the most powerful action people can take to prepare for the winter, especially for people who live in flood prone areas. fema says it takes 30 days for flood insurance to take effect. be proactive now. >>> detectives are trying to solve a deadly problem in san francisco. counterer ft xanax being sold. they look like the real sedatives on the left side of your screen. the fake pills which are mix would a narcotic can cause kidney damage. last week one person was found dead with a fake xanax on them. three others nearly died after taking the pills. investigators worry that most fake pills could be on the streets. and they're also working with authorities in the east bay to determine if there's any connection to the students who were hospitalized after taking xanax. >>> united airlines is having to face tough questions after a disabled man says he was forgotten about on a flight from sfo. he uses a wheelchair. neil says when the flight landed, everyone got off the plane, including t

. >>> plus an el nino warning from fema. the important step the agency wants you to take before potentially rainy winter moves in. information emailed to your coworkers by mistake. that what one santa clara county employee says happened >>> imagine having all your personal medical information e-mailed to a co-worker by mistake. that's what one woman said happened to her. she's suing the county for violating her privacy. michelle roberts is live outside the social services building in san jose where she worked. michelle, this is potentially he will bearsing. >> reporter: she says she's so embarrassed which is why she won't go back to work. she's on medical leave after receiving this letter saying all her information was shared by mistake on an e-mail lister. >> she's seven years from retirement after working for santa clara county for 17 years. now she says she can't face her co-workers in the social services department. >> they'll make fun of me or they're talking approximate me. don't hire her, because she's got this condit

tonight there's an important message from fema. they're urging homeowners to get flood insurance even if you don't live directly near a creek or river. buying flood insurance they say is the most powerful action to prepare for el nino. there are maps on the fema website that help you to check to see if you're in a flood-prone area. >>> it is the warm el nino waters that made hurricane patricia grow. it's hammering cities with severe wind and rain. the category 5 storm is a powerful reminder of what thousands of people endured during hurricane katrina ten years ago. survivors know what people in patricia's path are going through right now, and how they will feel when the storm blows over, and their lives are blown apart. we have one couple's story. it is a long road ahead. >> reporter: that's right. august 29th, 2005. sylvia and johnny clark's lives changed forever. they lost everything they owned in hurricane katrina. they said watching patricia hit landfall in mexico brings back horrible memories. >> already made landfall -- >> oh

>> this is a fema mission assignment. given to task force 3 and 4 and they're interacting with the md 22 stationed out of marine corps air station miramar. they're learning the capability as well as short take-off and landing capability of the aircraft in case they have to employ this capability for a search and rescue team that they can do so more effectively. >> reporter: what benefit would the b-22 have a regular plane. >> because of the short take-off and vertical take-off and troop transport and pretty much the payload it can carry, it's a versatile aircraft. the speed of which it delivers for logistical capability is needed is hands down incomparable to other capabilities. >> reporter: thank you very much. enjoy your stay here from camp pendleton to san diego. chief, chief robert lift with the oakland fire department. also with the fema search and rescue to california task force. first time seeing this? >> in person, yes, absolutely. >> reporter: what is the big thing you want answered today for yourself with regard

i think one of the most important decisions any new president has is who is going to run fema, and who is going to be prepared to work with cities, states, and the national government to get prepared for incoming natural disasters, to get pre-positioned the equipments and the food and the experts that you are going to need to be able to help people. i will take that very seriously. hasing for someone who real, hands-on experience, not from 30,000 feet flying over it, but who has been there, who is had to go in and figure out what to do to help people evacuate, what needed to be done to try to do as much as possible to help people save their homes, but not stay in their homes. there's just a lot of hard-won wisdom. because of climate change, we are seeing an increased number of weather events. all over the world, not just in our country. we need a mapping project. i will give you a perfect example of why i disagree so profoundly with the current republicans, we've heard the letter from ronald reagan, i told you about president george h.w. bush. the current republicans in the congress ar

fema gave spring lake a $7 million grant to repair its two-mile-long boardwalk damaged by superstorm sandy. work came under budget and found an additional $1.5 million was spent on equipment unaccounted for. fema has 90 days to respond. >>> switching gears here, after more than 60 years of shall we say baring it all, playboy is hoping less skin will mean more readers. >> subscriptions have been dropping steadily from more than 5.5 million back in the mid '70s to 800,000 today. jay gray has a closer look at the magazine's new pg-13 strategy. >> reporter: from the start, playboy magazine was a play book for social change. credited helping to usher in the sexual revolution of the '50s and '60s, publishing nude photos of models and movie stars and then the concept becoming a cutting edge iconic brand recognized around the world. >> i don't think that any other magazine in the 20th century had more influence on america and the world, and that's a pretty wild position to be in. >> that position has changed dramatically, and now so is the magazine. announcing early next year it will elimina

like many others, chuck, who joined us recently, was lowballed by fema and his insurance company which somehow claimed it wasn't sandy that severely cracked the foundation of his home. according to them, it was all a preexisting condition that just happened to magically appear the day after sandy hit. imagine that. you played by the rules, you faithfully paid for flood insurance for 10, 20 or 30 years, never had a claim until sandy came, only to find out it wasn't enough. you assume, since you have insurance, that you would have made whole and the resources necessary to rebuild would be there, but after surviving the wind, the rain and the storm surge, you woke up to another nightmare. a flood insurance claim process that threatened to take what the storm had not. and as much as i wish it were an aberration, chuck's story is not unique. thousands of new jerseyans were lowballed by their insurance company, stunting the recovery and leaving families out of their homes. now, fortunately, i, along with senators booker, schumer and gillibrand, were able to convince fema to allow all sandy s

i was at the fema's national advisory council in washington, d.c. last week. i had the honor of sitting on it and representing san francisco and i can't begin to tell you how many people came up and asked me about urban shield specifically? and if they could come out and to partner with us and find out what we do. so more to come on that. i wanted to mention that fema requires us to do a hazard mitigation plan and keep it updated every three years. we did complete our hazard mitigation plan at the end of 2014. we covered climate change, and sea-level rise, temperature rise, precipitation changes, and we received many national accolades and requests for guidance to integrate those new components into other people's hazard mitigation plans. so again, i think we are viewed as leading the pack in that. since our last meeting, we have had a number of different exercises. i mentioned urban shield and we had ebooltabletop series a 3-part series. we did a mass-feeding tabletop. we did fleet week logistic tabletop and as the mayor mentioned and you will hear more about

i was at the fema's national advisory council in washington, d.c. last week. i had the honor of sitting on it and representing san francisco and i can't begin to tell you how many people came up and asked me about urban shield specifically? and if they could come out and to partner with us and find out what we do. so more to come on that. i wanted to mention that fema requires us to do a hazard mitigation plan and keep it updated every three years. we did complete our hazard mitigation plan at the end of 2014. we covered climate change, and sea-level rise, temperature rise, precipitation changes, and we received many national accolades and requests for guidance to integrate those new components into other people's hazard mitigation plans. so again, i think we are viewed as leading the pack in that. since our last meeting, we have had a number of different exercises. i mentioned urban shield and we had ebooltabletop series a 3-part series. we did a mass-feeding tabletop. we did fleet week logistic tabletop and as the mayor mentioned and you will hear more about

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they help look for people who needed help and provided aerial pictures to help fema get a handle on the public damage. >> they're trying to check the latinos. they're meeting this morn on ways to improven all student performance. a program call "excel beyond the bell" has been started at seven middle schools. also as many as 10,000 will participate in the washington national prayer gathering on the national wall. more than 250 will send delegates. >>> right now skins fans we know, we were hoping the team took advantage during the game against the jetss next week. a lot of you can't shake the memory of yesterday's loss. the skins dropped the game to the undefeated. we had a chance though. they may have lost one matt jones after he sprained his big dough. it's this coming sunday at 1:00 p.m. >>> returning to their team with heavy hearts. what stumtds are saying as they prepare to head back. >>> plus the state of karr. new restrengths in place there. >> chilly conditions. storm team 4 meteorologist >>> developing in afghanistan, five are dead after a helicopter crashed in kabul. five other

fema increased its staffing at our 24-hour national watch center in washington, d.c. to provide additional reporting and monitoring of the situation. other lead element either deployed or peeping to deploy to potentially affected area and to insure there are to unmet needs. fema staff have been activated to prepare for the establishment of potential incident support bases which prepositioned supplies like water, meals, blankets and other resources closer to potentially affected areas. of course fema maintains significant stockpiles of commodity, millions of liters of water, meals, blankets and other resources like that at distribution centers across the country. final thing i will say here, particularly at this point we encourage all americans that live in areas that could potentially be affected by hurricane joaquin to monitor local radio, television, and official social media accounts for updated emergency information and as always, to follow the instructions of state, local and tribal officials. so this is obviously something that the president and his team are clo

>> if i don't i am hit with the $15,000 fema bill. if this storm hits how much will we go up? because they will look to recover from the victims. i strode pitchers today of what my a basement look like deirdre: we are looking at them now. >> fema did the first inspection after sandy they were lying about bed damages for i had an engineer recently telling me my foundation needs to have a lot of work before it could be raised. i could have had it done it will cost me over $75,000 to fix my foundation properly for my house to be held up. everybody is dragging their feet. three years later there are still people without homes. still there are people looking to go home. then you have another storm coming. they didn't put up the dunes or the protection they should have years ago. deirdre: i certainly hope for you and everyone else that is affected. we will have you back to go over the map that we wish you luck this weekend and be saved. still rebuilding his house after hurricane sandy. let me come back cover which she been received the most searches last month? our expert has the an

you know with relief money, fema money. >> we got a lot of that. a plan to enlarge beaches and raise the doom. >> there's still a couple of holdout. mayor what's the status? do you have holdouts? >> still holdouts and would be in condition for holdouts. >> the latest on joaqui n, it's headed out to see, that's what make hurricanes wild and incredible there's no meteorologist oh -- to predict what it's going to do. >> anything to mitigate the fact >> i mean, joaqui n -- >> joaqui n. >> joaqui n. [laughter] >> wakeam. >> right. how selfish to not actually give access so they can build those domes and protect anybody. i haven't seen anything so selfish in my life. >> you have to put yourself in somebody that dropped 7 million on a beach property. i'm not going to judge. >> thanks, hank. >> ronica, governor cristie had a press conference, what do you have in. >> he just finished remarks of upcoming storm and reaffirmed that jook sync not expected to east and we dodged a bullet. >> be ready and prepared. >> i did ask him about beach that hank just repor

coast guard and fema. i want to take a moment to highlight the extraordinary work of the secret service and other elements of the department of homeland security just a few weeks ago. we had the perfect storm. the protection of visiting heads of government. we had an late september 170 world leaders and their spouses, in this country in new york city all the same time. there are lead responsibility for protecting them all was the united states secret service. were the president of china had the leader from afghanistan, iraq iran and israel. russia, and of course we had the pope. all of this country at the same time. no other agency of our government except the secret service, and no other protection service in the world could have pulled off what the secret service did. the largest of essex security operation in the history of this country. flawlessly and perfectly. with other components of the department of homeland security. hsi. fema, the coast guard. i'm very proud of what our people have done. told th